Zucker Imitation

This poem's an imitation of Rachel Zucker's "Diary [The Fourth Seed]" from EATING IN THE UNDERWORLD.

Forest de Morrois

leaving was easy, but to look at your face –

time has spilled all over it

I tell you, here I’m getting greener

according to a natural process, growing

without regard to the courts and spouses

and what a lady is and maybe you’re feeling ashamed but

I am not

my own

I’m beginning to wonder if we

still sleep with a blade between us